Dolly Parton was inoculated with the Covid-19 vaccine that she helped finance.
The 75-year-old country music star began to sing while receiving Moderna’s jab and adapted one of his best-known ballads.
At the sound of Jolene, she sang: “Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, I beg you, please don’t hesitate. Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, because once you die, it’s too late. “
Parton was credited with helping to finance the Modern vaccine after donating $ 1 million (£ 716,000) to the Vanderbilt University medical center in Nashville, Tennessee.
“I’m so excited. I’ve been waiting for a while,” the singer told fans in a video posted from the university. “I’m old enough for that and I’m smart enough for that.
“I’m trying to be funny now, but I’m serious about the vaccine. I think we all want to get back to normal, whatever. And that would be a big shot in the arm, wouldn’t it, if we could get back to that?
“But in any case, I just wanted to encourage everyone because the sooner we feel better, the sooner we will be back to normal.
Parton added: “I just want to tell all of you cowards – don’t be so crouching. Go there and take your chance. “
Parton masked himself before inviting a doctor to enter the room. The doctor, an old friend of Parton’s, praised her for encouraging others to get the vaccine.
After dropping an item from the table while preparing the jab, a laughing Parton joked: “I didn’t know you were going to be so clumsy, I hope you do better with my shot!”
After receiving her first punch, she said, “It didn’t hurt.”
Parton is the last celebrity to publicly confirm that he received a coronavirus vaccine, after Sir Elton John, Sir Michael Caine, Sir David Attenborough, Sir Tony Robinson and Sir Ian McKellen.